Borders

The API Catalogue currently contains the following APIs in this category:

Department	Name	Description
HMRC	Bulk Data File List	The API lists the bulk data files available to download for a specific information type. For each file in list there will be a URL to download the file.
HMRC	Check an EORI Number	This API enables your application to: - check if an EORI number beginning with GB (issued by the UK) is valid. - view the name and address of the business that the EORI number is registered to (if the business agreed to share this information).
HMRC	Common Transit Convention Traders	This API will allow you to send departure and arrival movement notifications to the New Computerised Transit System (NCTS). It will also let you retrieve messages sent from the offices of departure and destination.
HMRC	Customs Inventory Linking Exports	This API enables the functionality to support the Inventory Linking Export process. Inventory Linking controls and monitors cargo moving through temporary storage facilities, and allows the movement/transition through frontiers.
HMRC	GOV.UK Trade Tariff API	The GOV.UK Trade Tariff API makes it easy to access UK Trade Tariff data from https://www.gov.uk/trade-tariff. The data includes commodity codes, import/export controls, customs duty and VAT rates. It is accessed via HTTPS and returns data in a JSON format. The reference documentation provides a thorough overview of the endpoints and the response format.
HMRC	Goods Vehicle Movements	This API provides resources related to the Goods Vehicle Movement Service.
HMRC	Individual Benefits	This API in particular provides information about an employee’s or director’s benefits for a given tax year, as reported to HMRC by their employer(s) through the PAYE process. For example company cars and fuel, interest-free and low interest loans, private medical and dental insurance.
HMRC	Push Pull Notifications	Use the Push Pull Notifications API to get notifications (pull) and to send notifications (push) automatically. Other HMRC APIs create notifications in response to events like asynchronous API requests.
HMRC	Safety and Security Import Declarations	The Safety and Security system handles digital communications between: customs administrators carriers or their appointed representatives You must provide the UK customs authorities with advance information by submitting an ENS before you bring goods into the UK.
HMRC	Safety and Security Import Notifications	The APIs will receive new ENS submissions or amendments and will return a response for the end-user. The response will include a movement reference number or an error message.
HMRC	Safety and Security Import Outcomes	The APIs will receive new ENS submissions or amendments and will return a response for the end-user. The response will include a movement reference number or an error message.
DIT	Check barriers to trading and investing abroad	Check barriers to trading and investing abroad is the service to which DIT publishes trade barriers. It is aimed at UK-based businesses planning to export goods, provide services or invest money in another country.
DIT	UK Global Tariff (measures as defined)	The UK Global Tariff (UKGT) is the UK’s first independent tariff policy which replaced the EU Common External Tariff (CET) which applied until 31 December 2020. This tariff entered into force on 1 January 2021. The UKGT applies to all goods imported into the UK. It lists preferential measures where the UK has entered into a new trade agreement or arrangement with a third country or territory. For other countries and territories, it shows the UK’s Most Favoured Nation (MFN) tariffs. The dataset does not include other import duties (such as VAT) and details of quota volumes.
DIT	UK Global Tariff (measures on declarable commodities)	The UK Global Tariff (UKGT) is the UK’s first independent tariff policy which replaced the EU Common External Tariff (CET) which applied until 31 December 2020. This tariff entered into force on 1 January 2021. The UKGT applies to all goods imported into the UK. It lists preferential measures where the UK has entered into a new trade agreement or arrangement with a third country or territory. For other countries and territories, it shows the UK’s Most Favoured Nation (MFN) tariffs. The dataset does not include other import duties (such as VAT) and details of quota volumes.
UKHO	ADMIRALTY Marine Environment Service	A suite of services within one easily accessible subscription allowing access to the full range of ADMIRALTY Marine Environment services from the UK Hydrographic Office.
UKHO	ADMIRALTY Maritime Limits Service	A suite of services within one easily accessible subscription allowing access to the full range of ADMIRALTY Maritime Limits Services from the UK Hydrographic Office.
UKHO	AVCS Online Discovery API	The ADMIRALTY Vector Chart Service (AVCS) Online Discovery API provides free access to a trial version of the AVCS Online Web Map Service (WMS). It is intended for use by developers from organisations who are interested in becoming re-sellers of AVCS Online.